knight
piece in the board game of chess
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Summary
knight ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,410 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: non-pawn chess piece[2], hippogonal[3]
- Part of: chess terminology[4]
- Commons category: Chess knights[5]
- Unicode character: ♘[6], ♞[7]
- Sport: chess[8]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://chess.stackexchange.com/tags/knights[10]
- Different from: steed[11]
- Portable Game Notation: N[12]
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Influence
Things named for knight include Four Knights Game[13], a chess opening[14]; Three Knights Game[15], a chess opening[16]; knight's graph[17], a mathematical chess problem[18]; and HSwMS Springaren[19], an attack submarine[20].
Why It Matters
knight has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] knight is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]
Entities named for knight include Four Knights Game[13], a chess opening[14]; Three Knights Game[15], a chess opening[16]; knight's graph[17], a mathematical chess problem[18]; and HSwMS Springaren[19], an attack submarine[20].